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		goatinaboat on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, ... Generally actual tech startups don't have a lot of patience. The tech that Silly Valley was originally built on was hardware with multi-year development cycles. “Tech” as a synonym for “ad supported website” is a very recent thing.

creamyhorror on April 16, 2020 [–]

1998 is not that recent any more, to be honest. Though admittedly it wasn't called 'tech' back then, but "dot com". Still, it was the same thing: web service startups.

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